Indonesia Economy Tests New President as Growth Slows

Joko Widodo Has Promised to Turn Economy Around

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia’s economy grew at its slowest pace in five years in the third quarter, and is expected to slow further, economists say.

Southeast Asia’s largest economy—in the spotlight earlier in this decade for posting annualized growth rates of 6% to 7%, while the rest of the world struggled—will likely fall to below 5% growth in the early stages of the new president’s term, economists say.